Brickbat: Bad Santa

Home security video revealed a babysitter funded by the New York City Administration for Children's Services abusing three young boys in her care. The video shows La'keysha Jackson beating the boys—brothers aged 2, 4, and 6 years—nearly 60 times with belts and hangers, throwing the youngest, and using a Halloween mask and a Santa Claus costume to scare them, prompting the family to demand answers. The New York Post reports Jackson has been fired and the police are investigating but no arrest has yet been made. Jackson was apparently the family's second city-funded sitter; the first was fired after she was found to be drinking and smoking at the playground while watching the kids.

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[AT]

La’keysha Jackson

Once again, the strangest choice when it comes to graphics to accompany the article.

This story goes so far past child abuse – into straight torture, gleefully committed at that – and yet Chaz paints it with a smiling white woman and a happy white child. What is that.

There is a special Hell waiting for you, Charles Oliver. You and KMW, for greenlighting this garbage.

she has yet to be arrested

Well. Hmm.

I see a rope and a tree in her future.

And don’t you dare say she doesn’t deserve it. Not after watching that video.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Let's cut some slack here. Having an AI generated picture rather than the stock picture featured above would prove to be... problematic.

[bye]

This is Biden writ large. Government will take much better care of your kids than you ever could. [ Forget Hunter ]

[Roberta]

She deserves to be hanged after watching a video? Must be that killing joke!

[AT]

You didn't watch a black woman bend a toddler over a bed so she could gleefully whip him with a belt, did you. Nor did you hear the prior conversation where the kid knew it was coming because she's obviously done this before.

Roberta, you get a spot in the tree right next to her.

[Fist of Etiquette]

“It’s a learning experience for us all,” the message read — which Jaramillo said was “infuriating.”

“I am their number one supporter when it comes to their safety and well being,” it concluded.

Jackson’s brother told a Post reporter outside of their Bed-Stuy home Monday that what the video depicted was normal in black families.

“Abuse my ass,” he said, “That happens in black families all the time.”

This one's got layers, from the taxpayer-funded in-home care to the program's oversight problems to the mess I quoted above.

[mad.casual]

throwing the youngest

"What that household really needs is a strong father figure to throw the 4 and 6 yr. around too."

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

a babysitter funded by the New York City

But they need the SALT deduction; they got nothing left to cut.

[mad.casual]

no arrest has yet been made.

At what point does it become unqualified immunity?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Nuke New York.

[Don't look at me! (I have soft power)]

This wouldn’t have happened if the mother had abortions.

[bye]

She would have crushed her heart and entered on great guilt.

"At least one in seven abortions in the U.S. are of children that
the mother reports were wanted. I recently found that the risk of depression, suicidality or anxiety disorders from such abortions was almost four times higher than for women who had aborted a child in an unwanted pregnancy. Mine is the first empirical study ever to examine these more distressing,invisible abortions."

[Roberta]

Smoking at a playground is a problem?

[Rossami]

Yeah, that one caught my eye, too. Drinking on the job is a fireable offense but smoking? We've gone overboard by a lot.

[AT]

If it were cigs, it wouldn't have been mentioned. Because it's MJ, Chaz omitted it.